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Prostaglandins as Candidate Ligands for a Per-ARNT-Sim (PAS) Domain of Steroid Receptor Coactivator 1 (SRC1)
Nicolas Daffern1, Kade Kelley1, José A Villegas2
1Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.
Abstract:
Steroid receptor coactivators (SRCs) comprise a family of three paralogous proteins commonly recruited by eukaryotic transcription factors. Each SRC harbors two tandem Per-ARNT-Sim (PAS) domains that are broadly distributed that bind small molecules and regulate interactions. Using computational docking, solution NMR, mass spectrometry, and molecular dynamics simulations, we show that the SRC1 PAS-B domain can bind to certain prostaglandins (PGs) either non-covalently to a surface that overlaps with the site used to engage transcription factors or covalently to a single, specific, conserved cysteine residue next to a solvent accessible hydrophobic pocket. This pocket is in proximity to the canonical transcription factor binding site, but on the opposite side of the domain, suggesting a potential mode of regulating transcriptional activator-coactivator interactions.
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